Source avec lien : OR Management News, 2023-03-13.
Le Dr. David Sherer partage ses réflexions sur les risques associés au travail en anesthésiologie.
The recent diagnoses of pancreatic cancer in three of my anesthesia colleagues have both saddened me and piqued my interest as to the potential causes of this cluster. All three are (or were) male colleagues in their 50s and early 60s, and all of them have been exposed to the physical environment of anesthesia for more than three decades. Two of the said individuals are in treatment now, and one, sadly, passed away. This unfortunate and tragic state of affairs got me to thinking about the risks we in healthcare in general and in anesthesia specifically must endure when we practice what we do. And unlike other professions, there really is no substantial “hazardous duty pay” when it comes to delivering the care we render.